Consultants

Kengo Harimoto

Kengo Harimoto is Research Associate at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, which he joined in 2020, after working at Mahidol University (2015—2020), University of Hamburg (2006–2015), University of Groningen (2002–2006) and Temple University (2000). He studied at the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. 1999), Kyushu University (MA 1990) and Nagasaki University (BA 1987). His research interests include: Indian Philosophy, History of Yoga, Buddhist Studies, Purāṇas, manuscripts and inscriptions. He worked on projects on the Skandapurāṇa and Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project and was a Collaborator on the first Suśruta Project (2020-2024).

Andrey Klebanov

Dr. Andrey Klebanov studied Classical Indology and Tibetology in Göttingen and Hamburg, where, in 2010, he received his Magister degree. His final thesis was concerned with the study of an ancient āyurvedic text, the Suśrutasaṃhitā, and its early transmission in Nepal. His engagement with this topic led, among other things, to an appointment at the NGMCP (Nepalese-German Manuscript Cataloguing Project) office at Hamburg University, where he worked on preparing a catalogue of Sanskrit manuscripts preserved at different libraries and archives in Nepal. In 2012, Dr Klebanov enrolled in the doctoral programme at Hamburg University and, during the preparation of his thesis, spent a substantial amount of time studying and researching at the EFEO (École française d’Extrême-Orient) centre in Pondicherry, India. In his doctoral dissertation, completed in early 2017 and published online, Dr. Klebanov turned his attention to the commentarial literature on Sanskrit belles-lettres and studied several commentaries on a classic work of Sanskrit poetry, the Kirātārjunīya by Bhāravi. During this time, Dr. Klebanov became invested in the study of Indian scholastic traditions, mainly those of vyākaraṇa (grammar) and alaṃkāraśāstra (poetics), which became the main focus of his subsequent teaching and research. From 2016 until 2021, he was appointed a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University in Japan. There, he taught graduate and post-graduate students specialising in Classical Indology, Buddhist Studies, Transcultural Studies and other related fields.

Tyler Neill

Tyler Neill is a Sanskritist and software engineer who gained his PhD at Leipzig for his thesis Intertextual Readings of the Nyāyabhūṣaṇa on Buddhist Anti-Realism. He is especially well known amongst Indologists for his websites Skrutable, Vātāyana and Pāṇḍitya, though which he expresses his multi-faceted engagement with Digital Humanities as applied to Sanskrit language and literature.